Ichigo
Ichigo is a native Japanese word meaning 'strawberry'.
In Chinese characters it is written ,
but this character is not in the Joyoo Kanji. This means that the most
favoured form should be ichigo in hiragana
( ).
Katakana is also a possible form as there is a custom of writing names
of plants and animals in katakana.
Hiragana is the form used below in a menu in a 'family restaurant':
Kōri ichigo miruku 480 en
Ice strawberry milk 480 yen |
A Google search in August 2003 found the following distribution of spellings
on the Internet:
Form |
No. of occurrences |
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204,000 |
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144,000 |
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134,000 |
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